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    STUDIA PHILOSOPHIA - Issue no. 2 / 2002  
         
  Article:   CHAOS AND DETERMINISM FROM THE STANDPOINT OF THE SENSIBILITY TO INITIAL CONDITIONS. AN EPISTEMOLOGICAL APPROACH.

Authors:  MARCEL BODEA. 		 
       
         
  Abstract:  The classical determinism is the view for which the only barrier to prediction is our lack of knowledge, due to a lack of observational data or to the lack of knowledge of the relevant laws of nature. A new mathematical theory, called CHAOS, offers a way of understanding order, order masquerading as randomness. My purpose here is an epistemological investigation: to examine a new area of scientific and philosophic inquiry, called ‘deterministic chaos’; to analyse the determinism in relation to unpredictability and to investigate a ‘modern’ source of deterministic chaos, the sensitive dependence on initial conditions (the “butterfly effect”); to explore how, from microscale to macroscale, errors and uncertainties multiply, cascading upward through a chain of unpredictable features.  
         
     
         
         
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